The only thing that you may need to do is to replace the thermal paste. Today 11 years (!) later ThinkPad W520 is still very capable and powerful machine. You see – the last Dell Precision to carry similar 7-row keyboard was Dell Precision M4500 – but that one was from 2010 and was able to pack only … 8 GB RAM (official) and 16 GB RAM (unofficial) – so its not a fair comparison. This machine was out-fucking-standing when it was released in 2011 … and expensive as hell also □ With 4 physical cores and up to 32 GB RAM only a few laptops could compete with it – Dell Precision M4600 – also could do that back then … but not exactly the same. This is the Table of Contents for this article. ![]() ![]() ![]() If you are curious why I use such old laptop then my older Epitaph to Laptops article explains that in detail. In this article I will share how I configured FreeBSD to make the most of it. I created whole FreeBSD Desktop series … but I never created an article describing how I run FreeBSD on my own daily driver – the Lenovo ThinkPad W520 from 2011 – the last one with the so much appreciated 7-row keyboard.
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